Burges Salmon LLP

Projects: PFI/PPP

Partner specialising in infrastructure projects and general commercial law. Mark acts for both the public sector and private sector. He is lead adviser for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in relation to the £31bn Dreadnought Programme and the £2bn AWACs aircraft procurement. He acted for MoD on the £10bn Astute Programme and the £4.5bn Skynet 5 satellite system. Mark acted for the Department for Transport and MoD in connection with its £6bn Search and Rescue Helicopter programme. Mark also acted for the UAE Armed Forces on its procurement of a multibillion-dollar military satellite system as well as multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects in the KSA for a European based defence company. Mark also led the team advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on their multi-billion pound Dounreay and Magnox civil nuclear reactor decommissioning programmes.

Trained Slaughter and May, London 1992-94; assistant Slaughter and May, London 1994-96; assistant Freshfields, Paris 1996-98; associate Burges Salmon, Bristol 1998-2001; partner Burges Salmon 2001.

Fluent French; some Spanish and German.

Attended Churchill College, Cambridge (1990 BA Hons); College of Law, Guildford (1991 LSF).

Music, tennis, farming and trekking.